Recently, SEBI issued a comprehensive circular on 26th February 2026 (link), making several big changes to the mutual fund categorisation framework. There is actually a lot in that circular, but I wanted to focus on one thing specifically – which…
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Which Equity Fund Categories Do You Really Need? – Economic Times Wealth (19-Jan-2026)
While each of the more than 10 equity fund categories offered by SEBI have their use cases, not all of them are required by most investors. Given that each category has 15-30 individual schemes to pick from, this confusion gets…
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Making Sense of Overlap among active Smallcap Funds
There is significantly less portfolio overlap among active Smallcap Funds than among Largecap funds. One of the reasons for this might be that, given the very nature of the small-cap space, there are numerous different styles/strategies that different fund managers…
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Difference in Final Portfolio (DIRECT Vs Regular) – Rs 25,000 Monthly SIP for 10 years in Largecap Funds
I did a simple analysis to see what is the Difference in the Final Portfolio value when you do a simple Rs 25,000 Monthly SIP for 10 years by investing in Active Largecap Funds (DIRECT Vs Regular)? Here are the…
Smallcap Funds: What Happened in 2018-2020 before the Sharp Rise in 2020-2024?
Everyone keeps talking about how (even) Smallcap Funds gave multibagger returns from the pandemic lows of 2020 (March) till now. But what many people don’t see and realize is that the levels from where NAVs fell in March 2020, the…
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Should you Invest in just Aggressive Hybrid Fund instead of a combination of Equity Fund + Debt Fund?
Many people are not comfortable investing 100% in equities for certain goals (and rightly so). All they want is to just have 60-70% in Equity and the rest 30-40% in Debt. There are many ways to do this - One…
LTCG Tax Increased to 12.5% – How it Impacts You, a Long-Term Equity Investor?
Long-Term Capital Gains (LTCG) Tax in Equity has been increased to 12.5% (from earlier 10%) in the Budget 2024. So, the 10% era existed from 2018 to 2024. The earlier pre-2018 era was about the good old days of 0%…
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Quant’s Front Running Allegations: What Should You Do?
Yesterday (on 23rd June 2024), a business news platform Moneycontrol reported that SEBI had conducted search and seizure operations in Quant AMC offices (link). The operation was supposedly conducted on suspicion of front-running operations. On its part, the AMC has…
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How to Optimize Rs 50,000 SWP from Rs 1 Crore Corpus for Regular Monthly Income?
If you started in January 2013 with Rs 1 Crore in Liquid Fund (say for example - ICICI Pru Liquid Fund) and did a SWP of Rs 50,000 monthly, then to date, you would have withdrawn a total of Rs…
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Debt Funds Taxation Change from 1st April 2023 (FY2023-24)
The taxation of debt mutual funds will change from 1st April 2023. Here is how your debt fund capital gains will be taxed from 1st April 2023: If the Mutual Fund holds less than or equal to 35% of Indian…
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Why Debt funds returns will Improve Soon?
The last 2 years have not been good for debt fund investors. Returns of almost all debt fund categories (except one) have been low. But this will change, pretty soon.
Active Largecap funds Vs Passive Index Funds in 2022
How have the active largecap funds done compared to their passive counterparts, passive largecap index funds in 2022? Have a look at the data below. And just have a look at the large share of passive index funds in the…
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Equity Fund 2022 Returns (All Equity Funds)
Here is a listing of all equity funds that are at least 1 year old. The list is sorted on the basis of 2022 returns. Have a look. Or you can search for the funds that you have in portfolio…
India’s 1st Passive Tax-Saver ELSS Index Fund Launched. But Don’t Rush to Invest
After SEBI allowed the launch of passive (index-based) tax-saving ELSS funds, finally an AMC, IIFL has decided to launch India’s first tax-saver index fund. The fund - IIFL ELSS Nifty 50 Tax Saver Index Fund, as the name suggests tracks…
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Nifty At All-Time-High. How much % is NAV of MFs below All-Time-Highs?
Indian stock markets are at new All-TIme-Highs. Unlike other markets which are down a lot this year (till now). So when markets are making new highs, many people feel that even their mutual funds should also make new highs in…
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